Mongabay: Man, not disease, drove the Tasmanian Tiger to extinction, according to a new study published in the Journal of Animal Ecology.
The Tasmanian Tiger or thylacine was a marsupial carnivore unique to the Australian island Tasmania that was last confirmed in the wild in 1933. The last individual died in Hobart zoo in 1936, although there have been sporadic claims of sightings since then.
While some have attributed the decline of the species to disease, the new study shows that the thylacine could…

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